For those who are about to savor the joy of motherhood or fatherhood, or just had their first baby and have not figured out yet the different ways in which babies cry, depending on what they are trying to tell us, technology comes to the rescue.

Thanks to Cry Translator, an iPhone application capable of interpreting the sound of an infant’s cry, it is now possible to understand the five main reasons which drive a baby to tears: sleep, hunger, stress, annoyance or pure and simple boredom.

Cry Translator seems to be much more than one of the millions of iPhone applications available on the market, some of which are fun, while others are plain useless; in fact, it stems from a research which took place in Spain, analyzing the different sound profiles of what can be defined as a baby’s first means of communication: crying.

The five main categories of cry are universal, and transcend cultural or environmental differences which will become more obvious with growth. In the first months of his life, when the infant has not yet received a cultural imprinting, the way that, for example, an American baby has of expressing himself (or rather, of crying) will be the same as a European one, to inform us that he wants to stop playing for a while and take a nap.

For as little as 10 dollars, you can download this software developed by Biloop Technologies, and test it on your baby. We hope that after a certain period of “training” there will be no more need to ask a mobile phone, to figure out what our babies are asking us…